Part four of my entire CD collection. And as I mentioned in the first post, this is only the physical part of my cd collection. I have a big pile of MP3’s of albums which I haven’t got on CD’s yet.

Top from left: EMPEROR: In the Nightside Eclipse / Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk / Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise / IX Equilibrium, ENFORCER: Diamonds / Into the Night / From Beyond / Live By Fire / Death by Fire, ENTOMBED: Left Hand Path / Clandestine / Wolverine Blues, ENTOMBED A.D.: Back to the Front,ENTRAILS: Tales from the Morgue / Obliteration / World Inferno

EMIGRATE: Silent So Long,ENSIFERUM: One Man Army / Two Paths, ENTHRONED: The Blackened Collection: Towards the Skullthrone of Satan / The Apocalypse Manifesto / Armoured Bestial Hell / Prophecies of Pagan Fire, EGO LIKENES: Water to the Dead / The Order of the Reptile, EISBRECHER: Eisbrecher (self-titled) / Antikörper / Sünde, EILERT PILARM: Eilert Forever / Best of Elvis / Eilert is Back

DEEP PURPLE: Deep Purple in Rock / Machine Head / Made in Japan (live) / Burn / Perfect Strangers / The Battle Rages On… / 30: Very Best of Deep Purple / Now What?!, DOKKEN: Original Album Series: Breaking the Chains / Tooth and Nail / Under Lock and Key / Back For the Attack / Beast From the East (live)

DIO: Holy Diver / Sacred Heart / The Last in Line / Intermission (live) / Dio’s Inferno – The Last in Live / Dream Evil / Lock Up the Wolves / Magica / Killing the Dragon / Master of the Moon / At Donington UK: Live 1983 & 1987 (live)

When I bought this around the time when it was released (2000), the booklet was stolen and because of that I got a 50% discount. And then I tried to draw the cover myself. And as you can see, the result is just breathtaking and almost matches the original! (Yes, that was irony 😅). Didn’t even bother to finish it LOL.

After collecting CD’s for many years, I will soon reach 1000 titles in my collection. Thus, I’ve decided to mark the celebration with showing the entire CD collection through a blog series as my tribute to the physical music format. I want to post them in alphabetical order in each post, and the number of letters in each post will depend on how many titles I have in each letter. This is just the physical part of the collection, I also have a bunch of digital albums (Mp3) that I buy from iTunes, and vinyls, so this is not the entire collection, just the CD’s. But I’m old-fashioned, and prefer to have my CD’s in physical format.

ACCEPT: Blind Rage (+ Live in Chile 2013 DVD) / The Rise of Chaos, ALESTORM: Captain Morgan’s Revenge / Black Sails at Midnight / Back Through Time / Live at the End of the World (CD + DVD) / Sunset on the Golden Age / No Grave But the Sea, ANTHRAX: Fistful of Metal / Spreading the Disease / Among the Living / Persistence of Time / Worship Music (+ poster) / For All Kings, AURA NOIR:Black Thrash Attack / The Merciless / Out to Die / Aura Noire, ASPHYX: Last One on Earth / Death…The Brutal Way / Incoming Death (+ stickers), AUTOPSY: Mental Funeral (+ Live in Rotterdam 1990 & Live in San Pedro 1991 DVD) / Severed Survival / The Headless Ritual

I’ve gotten more and more into vinyls in the recent years, and after buying the CD of Dimmu Borgir’s newest album “Eonian”, which is already one of my favorite albums of the year, I had to pick up the vinyl box set. And just for fun I decided to make a quick unboxing post to see how it went. Here we go:

For those of us who are into the horror movie genre, Pascal Laugier is a familiar name. He earlier brought us “Martyrs” , a movie that even to this day keeps shocking its audience (and french horror is known for not being shy about breaking a few boundaries here and there). He’s also behind two lesser known horror movies: “House of Voices” aka “Saint Ange”, and “The Tall Man” , the latter being more of a mystery thriller. In other words: I couldn’t help but being at least a little curious about Mr. Laugier’s new addition to horror, “Ghostland” .

The story follows a mother and her two daughters as they are on their way to their new home: an old country house they’ve inherited from her aunt. Early on, we learn that one of the girls (Beth) loves writing horror stories, which causes a bit of jealousy in her sister (Vera) as their mother keeps encouraging Beth’s talents. We also learn that Beth is quite a fanciful personality – an important hint which will make sense later on.

On their first night in the new home, they’re attacked by intruders who’s intent is murder – two characters that are so over-the-top that they’re almost a little unbelieveable: a skinny goth-looking transvestite and a huge ogre-looking freak who is (of course) retarded. And they’re driving a candy truck. Oh yes. However, even though the villains are a bit too much, they actually fit well inside the already weird country house filled with creepy dolls and strange knick-knacks.

While “Ghostland” does not shock or repulse in the same way as “Martyrs” did, it’s still an intense and suspenseful movie, and shows that Laugier’s still got what it takes.